BACKGROUND: Sections 18-24, 26:
18.
Sicilian Expedition:
Overview
19.
Key Cities in Sicily and Magna
Graecia
20.
Forces of the Sicilian
Expedition
21.
Historical Summary
22.
Alcibiades
23.
Plutarch, Life of
Alcibiades
24.
Egestan Duplicity
26.
Digression on Athenian Tyranny
1. First Actions in Sicily:
27.
First Battles in Sicily 24
Winter 415/4
This battle is known as either
"the battle at the Anapus River" or "the battle at
Daskon."
28.
Interlude 25
winter
415/4 allies pursuing
Syracusans and Hermocrates, Sparta, Syracusans extend city walls
29.
Circumvallation 26
Summer 414
2.
Summer 414-Winter
414
Arrival of Gylippus, fortification of
Plemmyrium, Athenian defeat, arrival of Corinthian ships, request for
reinforcements,
6.103-4
7.1-8, 10-16